News and Announcements

Announcing the Release of the CRDCN Dataset Builder

By DHaans

October 1, 2013

CRDCN Database Builder Splash Screen The Canadian Research Data Centre Network (CRDCN) is pleased to announce the release of the CRDCN Dataset Builder. In collaboration with Statistics Canada and Metadata Technology North America, the Dataset Builder allows researchers working (or intending to work) in a Canadian RDC the ability to browse, search for and select variables in the Statistics Canada surveys currently housed in the RDCs. Utilizing DDI Lifecycle metadata, the Dataset Builder allows researchers to find and select variables, as well as produce SAS, SPSS or Stata syntax to help read in and format the variables, and produce customized documentation (Layout and Codebooks) for the dataset they create using the app.

Scientific Data Repositories Issue Call for Change on Funding Models for Data Archives

By robin

September 27, 2013

For Immediate Release September 16, 2013 Contact: Mark Thompson-Kolar, 734-615-7904 mdmtk@umich.edu (Ann Arbor, MI) — Representatives of 25 organizations that archive scientific data today released a Call for Action urging the creation of sustainable funding streams for domain repositories — data archives with close ties to scientific communities. The document was developed after a meeting of data repositories across the social and natural sciences June 24-25, 2013, in Ann Arbor. The meeting was organized by the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) at the University of Michigan and supported by the Alfred P.

New IASSIST Quarterly now available!

By StuartM

May 16, 2013

Editor notes: Data bring maps, archive brings data, and accreditation brings research This issue (volume 36-1, 2012) of the IASSIST Quarterly (IQ) is the first of the 2012 issues. This editorial is written in March 2013 when many IASSIST people have received acceptance for their papers at the upcoming conference IASSIST 2013 in Cologne. I am certain there will be many interesting presentations at the conference. However, presenters can reach a greater audience by having their paper published in forthcoming issues of the IQ.

IASSIST Fellows 2013

By l.martinez-uribe

May 6, 2013

The IASSIST Fellows Committee is glad to announce through this post the six recipients of the 2013 IASSIST Fellowship award. We are extremely excited to have such a diverse and interesting group with different backgrounds and experience and encourage IASSISTers to welcome them at our conference in Cologne, Germany. Please find below their names, countries and brief bios: **Chifundo Kanjala (Tanzania) ** Chifundo currently works as a Data Manager and data documentalist for an HIV research group called ALPHA network based at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine’s department of Population Health, Chifundo spends most of his time in Mwanza, Tanzania but do travel from time around Southern and Eastern Africa to work with colleagues in the ALPHA network.

IASSIST 2013 - Early bird registration rates until April 30!

By vejvodab

April 18, 2013

GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences is proud to host the IASSIST 2013 Conference at Maternushaus in Cologne, Germany from May 28-31. The IASSIST 2013 theme is Data Innovation: Increasing Accessibility, Visibility and Sustainability. In line with the theme, the IASSIST Program is streamed into three tracks this year: Research Data Management, Data Developers and Tools and Data Public Services. Presentations cover topics such as standards and processes in data management, metadata extensions and tools, data citation practices, sensitive data and much more!

Newly elected IASSIST officials

By robin

April 18, 2013

Dear IASSISTers, With a 59% voter turnout, the following people have been elected as our IASSIST Officers, whose terms begin at the end of the Annual Business Meeting of the Association, at lunchtime on Thursday 30 May 2013: President: Bill Block Vice President: Tuomas J. Alaterä Treasurer: Thomas Lindsay Secretary: Kristin Partlo African Regional Secretary: Lynn Woolfrey Asia-Pacific Regional Secretary: Sam Spencer Canadian Regional Secretary: Michelle Edwards European Regional Secretary: Tanvi Desai

Become rich and famous: publish in the IQ!

By robin

April 2, 2013

These days many IASSIST members have received acceptance for their papers to the upcoming conference IASSIST 2013 in Cologne. There will be many interesting presentations at the conference. The conference presentation is your chance to present a project you are involved in, to air your argumentation for special areas, and in general to add to the IASSIST knowledge bank. Projects are typically focused on support of social science research but the IASSIST related support now takes many forms with the developments of technology and applications.

Introducing the IASSIST Data Visualization Interest Group (DVIG!)

By ALeahey

March 31, 2013

Hello fellow IASSISTer’s With the upcoming 2013 Conference nearing, we thought it very fitting to introduce you all to the newly created IASSIST Data Visualization Interest Group. Formed over the winter and now spring of 2013, this group brings together over 46 IASSIST members from across the world (literally across-the-world! check out the map of our locations), who are all interested in data visualization. We hope to share a range of skills and information around tools, best practice visualization, and discuss innovative representations of data, statistics, and information.

Update from COSSA: Changes to the Common Rule: The Implications for the Social and Behavioral Sciences

By e.stephenson

March 25, 2013

This is from the COSSA Newsletter ([Consortium of Social Science Associations).]{.st} March 25, 2013 Volume 32, Issue 6 Regarding a workshop on proposed changes to the Common Rule. Readers of these blog entries will recall that these proposed changes would require that data identitified in social science research would be required to meet HIPPA standards; potentially rendering many public datasets unuseful for research purposes. A link to the webcast is here: http://sites.

North American DDI Conference April 2013

By l.hoyle

January 23, 2013

Registration is now open for NADDI 2013 (http://www.ipsr.ku.edu/naddi/). The North American Data Documentation Initiative Conference (NADDI) is an opportunity for those using DDI and those interested in learning more about it to come together and learn from each other. Patterned after the successful European DDI conference (EDDI), NADDI 2013 will be a two day conference with invited and contributed presentations. This conference should be of interest to both researchers and data professionals in the social sciences and other disciplines.

Announcing the Release of the CRDCN Dataset Builder

Scientific Data Repositories Issue Call for Change on Funding Models for Data Archives

New IASSIST Quarterly now available!

IASSIST Fellows 2013

IASSIST 2013 - Early bird registration rates until April 30!

Newly elected IASSIST officials

Become rich and famous: publish in the IQ!

Introducing the IASSIST Data Visualization Interest Group (DVIG!)

Update from COSSA: Changes to the Common Rule: The Implications for the Social and Behavioral Sciences

North American DDI Conference April 2013

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